What is recorded here

Carran, meaning “the cairn,” is a small Burren village where limestone edges cut through grass and the land still remembers copper mines. It is also the birthplace of Michael Cusack, who helped create the Gaelic Athletic Association, giving the quiet upland a sudden national voice. Saint Columb is said to have founded an abbey there, leaving behind ruins, a sacred bed and a clear spring that people still imagine drinking from.

On the W side of a well-worn trackway leading from the coast road up through a hill-pass to a valley to the S. A large boulder (L 2.6m E–W; Wth 1.6m; H 1.5m) on the W side of the path. Small stones from fist size down to pebble have been placed on top of the boulder and in every available crack on the S face. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 9 December 2020

A wayside cairn, likely dating to the Bronze Age, associated with a prominent boulder and situated along a historic hill-pass route, indicating its possible role in waymarking or ritual activity.

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